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The Russian prosecutor's office has warned Russians against participating in a mass protest in the centre of Moscow after the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. -snip- According to videos and photos on social networks, people in other Russian cities were paying their respects to Navalny after news of his death spread.

Tucker Carlson has turned on Vladimir Putin in the wake of the shocking death of Alexei Navalny, just days after releasing a softball interview with the Russian president and a series of 'tourism board style' videos about the country's clean train stations and cheap groceries. In an exclusive statement to DailyMail.com, Carlson said: 'It's horrifying what happened to Navalny. 'The whole thing is barbaric and awful. No decent person would defend it.' It remains unclear whether the former Fox News host is still in Moscow.

Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny appeared healthy and in good spirits during a court appearance just one day before his sudden death in prison, according to a video. In footage by Russian news outlet SOTA and shared by Reuters, Navalny is seen cracking jokes with a judge in what is believed to be his last court hearing before his death. -snip- He began his career as an anti-corruption blogger before carving his own path as an independent politician who was outspoken against Putin and organized protests against the Kremlin. In August 2020, Navalny collapsed on a flight from Siberia. Medical...

Yulia Navalnya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, took the stage at the Munich Security Conference on Friday to issue a message to those responsible for her husband’s death: “I want them to know that they will be punished.” News broke that Navalny. a Russian lawyer and activist who vocally opposed the leadership of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died while imprisoned in Russia on Friday at age 47. The overwhelming belief across the international community is that Putin is responsible for Navalny’s death, and Navalnya appeared to agree. In a translation of her comments, she said: I don’t...

Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died, the prison service has said. He was seen in a video call in January, joking about his prison outfit at the Arctic penal colony he had been moved to a month earlier. The IK-3 colony, nicknamed "Polar Wolf", is in the northern town of Kharp, some 1,900km (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow. It's seen as one of the toughest jails in Russia and most detainees held there have been convicted of serious crimes. Speaking to journalists on the video call, Navalny appeared to be in good spirits, joking that he was yet...

Vladimir Putin's fierce rival and critic Alexei Navalny has died, according to the prison service. The Russian opposition leader, who was the most prominent and persistent domestic foe of President Vladimir Putin, had been serving a 19-year sentence on an extremism conviction. He had been incarcerated in central Russia’s Vladimir region, 140 miles east of Moscow. Navalny has been behind bars in Russia since January 2021, when he returned to Moscow after recuperating in Germany from nerve agent poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin. Before his arrest, he campaigned against official corruption and organized major anti-Kremlin protests.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in prison, the country's state media reported Friday, ending a yearslong fight against corruption and the Kremlin that saw him survive several poisoning attempts. He was 48.

Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been tracked down to a penal colony north of the Arctic Circle, his spokeswoman said on Monday, after supporters lost touch with him for more than two weeks, Reuters reports. Navalny, 47, was tracked down to the IK-3 penal colony in Kharp in the Yamal-Nenets region, about 1,900 km north east of Moscow, spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said. Navalny's lawyer managed to see him on Monday, she added. "This prison will be much worse than the one that was before," Yarmysh told Reuters. "They are trying to make his life as unbearable as it...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been located in a prison colony north of the Arctic circle, his associates confirmed Monday, nearly three weeks after losing contact with him. Navalny, the leading critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is current serving a 19-year sentence on charges of extremism, but his attorneys said they have not been able to reach him since Dec. 6. He was previously imprisoned in Russia’s Vladimir region, about 140 miles east of Moscow. But his spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, confirmed on X, formerly Twitter, that he is now imprisoned further north in the Yamalo-Nenetsk region.

The Kremlin is unable to track individual prisoners, a spokesperson said. The Kremlin has claimed it does not know where the Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny is currently held and it has no intention of looking into his status. -snip- Navalny's team on Monday said he had disappeared from the prison camp where he is held and accused authorities of refusing to say where he had been moved. Peskov on Tuesday claimed the Kremlin is unable to track individual prisoners. "We have neither the intention nor the ability to track the fate of prisoners and the process of their stay...

Allies of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say he’s been removed from the penal colony where he has been imprisoned since last year. Ahead of his transfer to a special security colony on Monday, Navalny was supposed to appear in court via a video call. However, his spokeswoman said he never did. His spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, voiced concern, saying that this was the sixth straight day Navalny’s aides don’t have any idea where he is or what is happening to him. She went on to say that prison officials blamed electrical problems for his disappearance.

Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was hit with new charges by Russia Friday, according to reports. Navalny, 47, is already serving more than 30 years in prison after he was found guilty of charges that he and his supporters say were politically motivated. This time, he said in social media posts shared by his spokesperson that he has been charged under article 214 of Russia’s penal code, which covers crimes of vandalism. Navalny, a longtime critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that the Kremlin wants to “initiate a new criminal case against me every three months.” “I don’t...

[Catholic Caucus] WYD: Bishop Attacks Priest Who Refused to Hand Out CommunionA priest of the neo-conservative FLUHM community placed Holy Communion on the tongue of young people who presumably wanted to grasp it with their hands at World Youth Day. One of them was Hendrik Roos, 27, a theology student and staff member at the "Bund der deutschen [anti-]katholischen Jugend" (Federation of German [anti-]Catholic Youth) in Münster. As a result, the petty-minded Roos grassed on the priest to the Münster diocesan newspaper Kirche-und-Leben.de. Münster Auxiliary Christoph Hegge then pompously called the correct administration of communion a "no-go." During the Covid...

Russia's most prominent opposition leader Alexei Navalny says that he expects to see his prison sentence extended by nearly two decades on Friday (Aug 4) when a court delivers its verdict on a battery of new charges against him. Who is he and how did he get to this point? OPPOSITION LEADER Navalny, 47, is by far the best known figure in Russia's splintered opposition, with supporters casting him as a Nelson Mandela-style figure who will one day be freed from jail to lead the country. The Kremlin has tried to portray him as politically irrelevant, and President Vladimir Putin...

Please watch this message from Russian political prisoner Alexei Navalny. Why? The illegal use of political power to persecute and prosecute opponents is not limited to Vladolf Putler's regime. The Russian goes by fast, and the captions are exact, but YouTube settings allows you to slow it down for ease of reading. Here is the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u8KApC6_Bc

The prosecution has requested a sentence for Alexei Navalny in his latest criminal case: 20 years in the Russian version of the supermax prison, usually reserved for murderers with life sentences. The politician is accused under six articles of the Russian Criminal Code: establishing “an extremist community” (the Anti-Corruption Foundation) that was “infringing citizens’ rights” (calling for 2021 rallies), “inciting” and “financing” extremism (the ACF), “involving minors in dangerous acts”(rallies), and even “rehabilitating Nazism” (anti-Putin statements by his chief of staff). The court sessions are being held in the penal colony, with journalists not allowed to attend. Here’s Navalny’s final...

Since June 1, even the radio has been turned off in my cell. I can't see other people, and when I do I'm not allowed to talk to them. So when I entered the courtroom and the courtroom and the lawyers asked me, "So how did martial law go for you?", I thought it was some kind of new joke or Internet meme that hadn't reached me yet. And when, a minute later, they were telling me about the seizure of Rostov, the helicopters that had been shot down, and the armed column heading for Moscow to "kill that bastard...

Supporters of jailed Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny held protests in Russia and several European cities to mark his third birthday in prison. Supporters of jailed Russian opposition figure, Alexeï Navalny, held protests in Moscow, Germany, and elsewhere in the world on Sunday to show their support as the 47-year-old spent his third birthday in prison. In Russia, demonstrators marked the day in several cities by holding individual protests, while others sprayed graffiti. Police quickly detained many for questioning. Meanwhile in Germany, supporters gathered at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to call for Navalny’s release. "We do these rallies all...

Yesterday, Kremlin information resources showed a meeting of two "absolutely healthy" people, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov. The meeting was supposed to demonstrate the excellent health of the participants and their "strong handshake". It didn't work out very well. Putin, against the background of undergoing urgent therapy, does not feel the best way, and recently he has again increased abdominal pain, which is not always completely stopped. In the footage of the meeting with the head of Chechnya, Putin sat in a chair, in the moment, contorted in pain, frantically grasping his...

Vladimir Makei 'passed away suddenly', Belarusian state media reported today They gave no cause for Makei's death or any explanation of the circumstances Makei, 64, was due to meet Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov tomorrow He was then set to travel to Poland to meet a host of Western diplomats Some opposition figures in Russia and Belarus have posited the Belarusian security service could well have been involved in Makei's death Belarus's long-standing foreign minister has died suddenly, the state news agency Belta reported on Saturday, just days before he was due in Poland to meet key Western officials. 'Foreign Minister...